Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.